“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanAsksDirectorsHollywoodAsk MeTarantinoHollywood Movies Author:Melanie Laurent
“By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.” KnowsFirstsFilmPsychologyWeekDirectorsShootingHeadings Author:Jodie Foster
“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.” IfsKnowsFirstsStyleCall MeImpressionists Author:LeRoy Neiman
“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsDoneJobsFilmProcessAudienceDependsPlentyHopefullyExpanding Author:Duncan Jones
“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.” KnowsFirstsSingingSeasonsRadioStudios Author:Frank Ocean
“A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.” KnowsWantWritingFirstsBookChildhoodYour Children Author:Tea Obreht
“We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.” KnowsFirstsFormConditionsChangedInternalsBiologyPrimitiveOrganismsObligedSimulate Author:Wilhelm Ostwald
“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsWellsMeanI CanImportantBookReasonDoneHappensEnjoyWrittenHugeAmountPlanningRelaxChaptersOutlines Author:R. L. Stine
“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.” KnowsYearsFirstsMadeSpeakCausesSidesNumbersRocksTheoryReturnRootsLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyFirmReasoningArrowsObjectionsInfallibleOntologyArcher Author:Georg Cantor
“This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!” KnowsFirstsLastsViewsPositionConsequenceLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningLogicalSoleOntology Author:Georg Cantor
“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.” IfsKnowsNeedsWritingFirstsOrderWaitingHoursKnownFateWrittenPagesSentencesInvisibleChaptersInvisible Things Author:Lynda Barry
“There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.” KnowsInspirationalYearsFirstsSaidSpeakLinesSevenGapsSeven Years Author:Christopher Lee
“I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.” KnowsFirstsMadeI CanNightMy OwnHairMy FavoriteWaveJeansPremieres Author:Diane Lane
“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.” KnowsFirstsSeemsWould BeAmericaNationsPerfectLeaderClassImagineStudentsCollegeCitizensCreatingNotionAbsurdSupposed To BeSatDiverseCompositionFilling Author:Eric Liu
“It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.” KnowsFirstsOne ThingStageFirst TimeQuittingJuneI Quit Author:George Lopez
“The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.” PeopleKnowsFirstsHumansMadeStillsFallCultureKnownLongingGoing AwayDeep InsideDeepest FearOur Deepest Fear Author:John Ortberg
“I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.” KnowsFirstsScaryReally ScaryMammograms Author:Monica Potter
“I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsPersonsStoriesNovelWrittenThirdsShort StoryFirst PersonThird PersonThinking First Author:Tamora Pierce
“You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.” KnowsFirstsDoneBigsJoyHateCausesHeardFansFirst TimeAbsolutesAlbumsFrustrationMixturesHate Myself Author:Andy Partridge
“I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.” KnowsWayFirstsDreamBlackKnow HowFirst TimeCleanGrandmotherNightmarePotRecipesDreams Come TrueCubaCeilingsBeansCubanDrippingGreat Grandmother Author:Danny Pino
“'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?” KnowsFirstsGrowing UpGrowingIndiaShoesTeenagerSlumsNikeHeadphonesNike Shoe Author:Dev Patel
“In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.” PeopleKnowsFirstsPersonsWho We AreThings In LifeCostumes Author:Molly Parker
“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.” ThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsIdeasActorsLaughingPretentiousHave A Laugh Author:Rosamund Pike
“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.” KnowsFirstsFiguresBehaviorMeetings Author:Arthur Rock
“I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.” KnowsFirstsTwoMightThreeFourPlayerWinnerSlam Author:Patrick Rafter
“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsStoriesHandsSituationCenturyOriginalsFamiliarNineteenth Century Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.” KnowsYearsFirstsCountryStatesInspirationGirlOpportunityGivenBecomingFemaleAllowingGovernorsUnlimitedVermontMadeleinesYears Of Service Author:Bernie Sanders
“My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.” KnowsFirstsJobsHouseMy OwnPayKnow HowCostMembersConceptsCourtClubsTennisGradesMilkEmbarrassingClaySweepingYachtSixth GradeBmwTennis Courts Author:Chloe Sevigny
“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.” KnowsFirstsEndsEnoughCharacterMightLastsFilmCasesPiecesMaterialsSceneFlowScriptsExtremes Author:Jean Stapleton
“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.” KnowsFirstsPersonsTwoEnjoyMinutesOrchestraRehearsal Author:Leonard Slatkin
“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".” ThinkingKnowsFirstsPlayWholeStoriesFilmSongTeacherDramaMusicalJeansBeltsMamaFootloose Author:Miles Teller
“But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.” KnowsFirstsLongFallPeriodsLong TimeBeatsFalling In LoveHeavyRapGangstaGangsta Rap Author:Alan Vega
“That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsRealBigsGuyLaughingJokesFunny Men Author:Alan Vega
“I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsFirstsMeanGrowsDifferencesMiddleQualitative Author:Ayelet Waldman
“In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.” KnowsFirstsHomeChristianCommunityAnd LoveRaisedDecadesGod LoveChristian Home Author:Chely Wright
“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMadeCareEvilAliveMediaPerceptionMusic IsInterviewsTrickeryNecessary Evil Author:Jack White
“Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.” KnowsFirstsMistakeHeardSubjectsCommittedCombinationArtificialPrincipalLegislatorsReformersFatal Mistakes Author:Josiah Warren
“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.” IfsKnowsFirstsChildrenSelfPlayWould BeEyeCareRunningHouseStarsParentWatchesTeachSelf EsteemFieldsSeriousRaisesParentingFingersPaintEsteemFirmMy ChildrenHugConnectingRaising ChildrenPower Of LoveBeing A ParentCorrectingHaving ChildrenKitesChildren And ParentsParents LoveChildren PlayingGood ParentRaising KidsFunny ParentingParent ChildFunny ParentTuggingGreat ParentingInspirational ParentingKids PlayingRaise Self EsteemLove My ParentsLoving ChildrenInspirational ParentsEyes WatchingI Love My ParentsLove My KidsWise ParentsBuilding Self EsteemBeing A Good ParentLove My ChildrenThrough The Eyes Of A ChildLove My SonHaving A Son Author:Diana Loomans
“People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMayPlayFilmRolesStageComfortableTheaterWingsScreensKnow MeFirst Love Author:Sanaa Lathan
“You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.” ThinkingKnowsShouldFirstsShows Author:Al Franken
“I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.” IfsKnowsFirstsReasonHandsBigsPolicyIndustryResearchBig ThingsTextiles Author:Ezra Miller
“You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.” KnowsWayFirstsRememberKnow HowKissingFirst TimeKissing Someone Author:Breckin Meyer
“What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.” KnowsFirstsHandsStuffRingsBoxingGossipSaltGrainMikeTysonGrain Of SaltBoxing Ring Author:Gerald McRaney
“First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.” KnowsFirstsPersonsToolsNarrativeFirst PersonFirst Person Narrative Author:James McBride
“My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.” KnowsWritingFirstsRealWantedJobsRocksStonesBunchJournalismRollingRock And RollRolling StonesInvestigative Journalism Author:Tim Cahill
“You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'” KnowsFirstsMomentsFeltFirst TimeLegsThat MomentAriel Author:Carly Rae Jepsen
“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsIdeasPhilosophyFactsFirst TimeTitlesWowEssaysAmazing Things Author:Sophie Kinsella
“The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first. I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.” KnowsMenFirstsBigsCareStrongRealizingSpaceSonMomNeededEmptyIndependentRaisedHardestGod LoveMy SonNestsStrong IndependentEmpty Nest Author:Kim Alexis